Adult Autism and/or ADHD Diagnosis Actually Gifted Burnout?
A New Hypothesis of Neurocomplexity That Attempts to Answer This Important (Yet Unpopular) Question.
Why is there so much reported overlap in presentation and subjective experience of what we collectively and clinically refer to as ADHD, Autism and Giftedness? Here are my thoughts as it pertains to burnout in early adulthood.
Gifted Kid
The story of neurocomplexity often begins in childhood when the individual is identified as “gifted” or exceptionally “talented” in the school system or in another assessment via some sort of cognitive testing battery. “Gifted” kids are then separated from mainstream classrooms to some capacity to explore a combination of more accelerated, expansive, independent and/or creative learning options (this was my experience—yours may differ).